Wow, am I a slack-ass or what. Almost a month and a half
since my last entry. At least I lasted longer than rth.
OK, so, I guess if people care about anything here they
might care about the state of my geeking.

I'm still flailing around trying to get maestro hardware so
that I can fix up the known problems in the OSS Maestro
driver. The APM hacks it has are not playing nice with
ACPI, there are playback problems that feel like they're due
to APU accessing races, and supporting FM synth and MIDI
would be nice. Then there is the Big Bad Maestro3, aka
Allegro, that is being shipped in lots of machines now. The
bad news is that we can't get full docs on its DSP core.
The good news is that the sparse docs that exist seem to be
enough to get Sound Blaster emulation working. Yes, we're
taking a PCI DSP and telling it to be probably the crappiest
sound chip known to man. Go Team. All of this is made even
more interesting by the fact that I don't have the hardware
:) I have a fellow playing with the allegro remotely. I
also have various people (including ESS) trying to get me
hardware. It will sort itself out in the end.

I packaged up what little code exists for Matofali and put
it up on http://www.zabbo.net/matofali/.
Maybe some adventerous soul will pick it up and run with it.

I sent a note to the NSPR list saying that I had a neato IO
abstraction model and it felt like it might be fun to
include it in NSPR. I got two responses. One of the form
"duh, we have something like that over here.." and "ACK,
wrong wrong wrong." The former wasn't too surprising, but
the code they have is nowhere near ideal. The latter proved
to be quite interesting indeed. A fellow at Netscape sat me
down and explained to me why the IO engine API I had come up
with was on serious crack. Given our discussions, I'd love
to sit down and write an IO engine. But I need some sort of
real world daemon to use it. FTP is tempting, but...
Anyone have any bright ideas?

The BeBox is still lying idle. I still don't have the
infrastructure to be happy coding on it. Someday, someday.

I've just put Gnebula up on http://www.zabbo.net/gnebula/.
Its incomplete, but there you have it. I always wanted to
make it a real Etherman clone, but I just
don't have the patience for interface design.

Another phhttpd release is pending. Chuck is cleaning up
his patches that make the event loop much more clear and
fix the signal queue failover.

Is that it? I guess so. Real Life is as fun as usual.
I'll tell you about it sometime when we're nowhere near
computers.